Tag Archives: Anchor Brewing Co.

The beer that birthed the craft brewing revolution in North America, Anchor Steam — aside from being a piece of history — is also an awesome beer. Anchor is the only remaining gold-rush era brewery in San Francisco. Started in 1874, it survived through the 1906 earthquake (okay, it was actually destroyed, but they rebuilt), […]

A classic brew. Anchor Brewing is considered by many to be the catalyst that sparked the American micro-brewery revolution (by no less a person than Fritz Maytag, heir of the Maytag appliance family). By today's standard's Liberty Ale is a fairly tame American-style IPA, but when it was first produced, there was no such thing […]